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Sunday, March 17, 2013

The Greatest Show on Earth

A couple weekends ago, we went to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus at the Prudential Center in Newark. This was a Christmas present to us from Brian's father and step-mom. Brian and I talked up the circus to Julianna for a good month before we went and she was so excited to talk about the Elephants and the tigers! She was eager to go, even though I don't think she truly understood what it was we were going to see. Have you been to the circus recently/ I think I went as a kid but don't recall when. We went to Cirque-de-soleil 2 times before Julianna was born - but it was nothing like this!

Once we were there, as much as I thought she would love the animals, she really only liked the dancing dogs. To my surprise, she hardly paid attention to the elephants or the tigers. She did however love the acrobats, the trampoline performers, the high wire act and the human canon. Sometimes you just don't know what your child will like, even though you totally think you know!

Julianna was a good girl and stayed in her seat the entire time or stood up in front of it - there was no one in front of us, so it was perfect. We had good seats too, we were in row 8 right in front of everything going on.

I decided to take my camera, even though I wasn't sure what kind of shots I would get due to the dark lighting there. I think, considering the light, smoke and changing colors - I did ok. At least you can tell what's going on even if it's kind of grainy. And uh, it seems as though I sized some of these wrong. That's what I get for doing this with one eye open before bed.

4 comments:

Oh my, this looks like so much fun! I would have never thought to bring Livi to see this! What a great idea. I wouldn't think she was old enough but I'm rethinking it now! If J loved it, I'm sure Livi would too! You got some great pics! I love those dancing poodles! So cute!

How fun! Why do things have to be so freaking expensive?! Good call on getting the wand outside! Looks like J had a great time and I love the pic of you kneeling down and then she just decides to sit down :) The circus is always here in July, this might be the year that we decide to take Kylie.